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Two People (Naohiro Utagawa, Daisuke Yokota) "Stone Falls”
Talion Gallery
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Two People (Naohiro Utagawa, Daisuke Yokota)
This is an exhibition by the unit “Two People" consisting of Naohiro Udagawa and Daisuke Yokota.
Naohiro Utagawa creates his works using photography, installation, and language by composing his own subjects, mainly familiar objects and situations, and repeating epistemological retrogression through the process of their amorphous forms. In recent years, Utagawa has been creating and exhibiting works as if responding to variously segmented propositions, such as by erasing the subjects that emerge in landscapes one after another in response to the question, "What is pure landscape photography like?"
Daisuke Yokota, who has been active both in Japan and abroad, is known for his method of generating autonomous images through the intervention of chance at each stage of production, such as photographing, post-processing, and developing. Not only does he make extensive use of digital processing, copying, and scanning, but he also exposes the materiality of film by developing it with hot water and chemicals, thereby reexamining the medium-specificity of photographic expression. It can be said that this is a practice of confronting the discrepancy and adhesion between the reality that the recorded image is oriented toward and the reality that the underlying material expresses, and of continuously renewing the relationship between the two.
“Two People" exhibited for the first time in 2020 as part of the Yebisu Film Festival's regional collaboration program. By focusing on the inconsequential conversations between the two, including footage recorded in the car on the way to the filming location, the unit attempts to foreground motives and thoughts that are alien to the formation of the work.
This exhibition, "Stone Falling," is organized based on a three-chapter narrative, "Hachioji Meteorite," "Alchemy," and "New Tokyo Diamond Bowl," following the standard format found in light novels and anime.
Naohiro Utagawa creates his works using photography, installation, and language by composing his own subjects, mainly familiar objects and situations, and repeating epistemological retrogression through the process of their amorphous forms. In recent years, Utagawa has been creating and exhibiting works as if responding to variously segmented propositions, such as by erasing the subjects that emerge in landscapes one after another in response to the question, "What is pure landscape photography like?"
Daisuke Yokota, who has been active both in Japan and abroad, is known for his method of generating autonomous images through the intervention of chance at each stage of production, such as photographing, post-processing, and developing. Not only does he make extensive use of digital processing, copying, and scanning, but he also exposes the materiality of film by developing it with hot water and chemicals, thereby reexamining the medium-specificity of photographic expression. It can be said that this is a practice of confronting the discrepancy and adhesion between the reality that the recorded image is oriented toward and the reality that the underlying material expresses, and of continuously renewing the relationship between the two.
“Two People" exhibited for the first time in 2020 as part of the Yebisu Film Festival's regional collaboration program. By focusing on the inconsequential conversations between the two, including footage recorded in the car on the way to the filming location, the unit attempts to foreground motives and thoughts that are alien to the formation of the work.
This exhibition, "Stone Falling," is organized based on a three-chapter narrative, "Hachioji Meteorite," "Alchemy," and "New Tokyo Diamond Bowl," following the standard format found in light novels and anime.
Schedule | May 14 (Sat) 2022-Jun 12 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Talion Gallery http://www.taliongallery.com/  | ||||
| Location | B1F, 2-2-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0031 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from Mejiro Station on the JR Yamanote line, 2 minute walk from exit 2 at Zoshigaya Station on the Fukutoshin line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5927-9858 | ||||
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